| 词汇 | example_english_contest |
| 释义 | Examples of contestThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Inventing images: constructing and contesting gender in thinking about electroacoustic music. As the fine arts became commodified and politicized, images of rule too became possessed, interpreted, and contested by subjects. By monumentalising the past through the dead, the authority and status of particular elites are announced, confirmed or even contested. Our understanding of the causal forces that bear upon our current circumstances is bound to be limited and often contested. The office bloc ballot is designed so that the names of candidates are grouped together under the title of the office they are contesting. Established candidates contested these nominations to the convention. First, election contests in both chambers have tapered off considerably since the beginning of the twentieth century. With nearly half of all constituencies contested, the election dramatically confirmed the extent to which divergent religious sensibilities provoked opposing political affiliations. The machinery developed here is quite general, but the main application is to two-candidate contests. Electorally contested 'swing' regions tended to be the beneficiaries of national subsidies rather than others. In this period, there have been 352 races where incumbents have been contested and where data are available. Our findings suggest that political discussion is infrequently public, modestly contested and sometimes marred by inequality. Their status was contested by both markets and state hierarchies and their independence was constrained and manipulated. While donors generously finance post-conflict or founding elections, funds become scarcer for subsequent electoral contests. Among the terms used are 'minimal phrase ' and 'phonological word ', both of which have contested meanings in the literature on phonological theory. An abstract monument could be mentally inscribed with different meanings and messages that might otherwise have been contested. There are also a number of very strong assertions that could be contested. He sees contemporary discourse about human rights as the modern version of justifying and contesting competing values. All three of these arguments are powerful and their relevance is not contested. Consumers are induced to always ask for these receipts, as they are necessary for tax deductions, and even to enter contests. While on the surface it complacently played this role, it tacitly contested it as well. Friendship is not a preordained or fixed identity that predetermines people's behavior; it can be negotiated and contested for interactional purposes. Analysis of a wide range of historical documents (some dating back to classical antiquity) demonstrates convincingly that continental divisions have always been arbitrary and contested. According to the great majority of interviewees, power cannot be contested, because it is divine by essence. As noted below, 'social capital' has acquired a very different but notoriously contested meaning today. In 1936, for example, there was much excitement in the profession when a number of public works were to be contested through competitions. Rather, some of them talk about and present themselves as having the capacity to inform public opinion about hotly contested religious and moral matters. More recent multivariate statistical analyses have contested many of these relationships, however, especially the links with age, gender, household size and health factors. With ' passing ' it is not the existence of the category which is being contested, but rather one's inclusion in it. Initially, the selection of the territorial integrity norm was contested. In many instances, these cases are not highly contested. However, the other communities have contested his decision-making power beyond the community's political sphere of influence. Furthermore, there are, of course, new regional and global transnational actors contesting the terms of globalization-not just corporations but new social movements. Rectifying losses in athletic contests is not in the core of what an egalitarian society owes its members. The second and perhaps more far-reaching conclusion is that the nature of property was already ambiguous and contested in pre-colonial society. Many claims of the anti-ageing advocates are highly contested, and many scientists judge them to be ' unscientific'. The characterisation of anti-ageing medicine and the broader movement are contested. Their frequently contested histories of segmentation, dispute and dispersal across the landscape provide the narrative basis for varying degrees of alliance and cooperation. He contested the notion that western civilisation was pillared upon its dominant faith and that it was the sole repository of truth. Roles are contested; when different people simultaneously judge an individual's identity to be different, he occupies two or more roles at once. The words, images, feelings and objects of the past are constantly lived, acted and contested in the present. The economic cost associated with smoking is fiercely contested. Like symbolic meaning, value is contested by members of society. The difference is often contested because it may involve questions of power. In other respects as well, the papers differ in approach and argument, illustrating how this history is still contested. Moreover, ' forestry laws and policies are contested, circumvented, selectively applied, interpreted and reinterpreted in their making and application ' (p. 56). At its most reformative, it contests the dominant cultural system of values and potentially disrupts the socio-economic order. What constitutes acceptable moral ends for morally significant social mechanisms such as criminal process is - and always has been - highly contested terrain. The inclusiveness of the public sphere greatly depended on the concept of public science current in a particular social setting, even though contested. Trees were wrapped up in bitterly contested conflicts concerning enclosures and the division between customary rights and private property rights. Government officials' efforts were highly contested, especially by employers, but, over time, a convergence of organizational interests in managing the new industrial relations developed. First, the information costs of contesting elections increased, as illiteracy rates declined and media coverage (including radio) expanded. How are the main issues surveyed by the author contested and configured by the state and the revolutionary elite itself? Huge capital costs, the limited availability of supplies, contested markets and price controls all weakened the market's ability to function effectively. Moreover, when the majority party did benefit from election contests, the impact was small, with the seat addition maxing out at two. A more systematic examination of the role of partisanship in election contests appears in the following section. Election contests have also been widely distributed across the various states. In contrast, political theorists have transformed liberalism into one of the most dynamic and contested ideas about politics. The mode of finance can be particularly important, as some taxes are more visible or contested, and thus more difficult to raise. Moreover, technological actors affected by the outcomes often contested the credibility of the outcomes. Without contesting that claim, nevertheless, one may also point to another gure, who may have something to do with the literariness of the movement. What conventionalism contested, however, was not the rationality of science, but its reducibility to a mechanical process. Throughout the nineteenth century, liberal politicians and intellectuals contested the nature and boundaries of civilization. Clues from various genres suggest that it is also contested. Combining the conflicting expectations pertaining to the warrior knight, courtier, gentleman scholar, and local lord, the basis of aristocratic rule was varied and contested. The argument follows from a fundamental premise: to understand the development and reception of forms of subjectivity requires an awareness of their highly contested nature. Early national polls foreshadowed the winner of eight of the last eleven contested nominations. The percentage of agreement with the first person's bracketing was 98.42%: only 62 out of 3927 locations were contested by a verifier. Ageism and occupational injustice were both maintained and contested by the users in various paradoxical ways. The evaluation of the behaviour is contested, and it raises doubts and questions about what residents should and should not do. Ownership of health services research as a topic area of study is contested by the different disciplines involved. He was contesting the then more prevalent view, that these activities were symptoms of pathological and progressive cognitive deterioration. First, the right of residents to retain their autonomy and independence was not contested by the owners or care staff. Talking about needs : interpretive contests as political conflicts in welfare-state societies. The interests motivating a language are always contested by competing agencies and communities. On a symbolic level, names were also contested. In short, the complexity of culture and ideology-varied and contested as such entities are in life-cannot be captured. Arguably, there is no other class of archaeological data that is as compelling and contested as are mor tuary remains. Western cultural forces, rather than clearing all before them, were contested at every stage. The difficulty is that matters of participation and process are as contested as most other political issues. Subsequently, the committee's own frame became fiercely contested in public and political debate on immigrant integration. Textual representatives of canons (whose status is constantly contested), can instead be purchased and played. However, as the ensuing discussion illuminates, the influence of each approach is variable and contested. Not only did the process of state rebuilding produce enormous unexpected consequences, different social groups also contested participation in the new state. Subsequent developments in literary criticism, however, have threatened the status of traditional literary history, but by contesting its premises in quite different ways. Turnout in the metropolitan boroughs in 1990 was, at 46.3%, higher even than that in the two pre-general election contests in 1983 and 1987. Such contests have always been likely to degenerate into personality or" beauty contests". The society sponsored, for example, a series of essay contests on general precepts of poor relief reform which attracted more than local interest. Interestingly enough, the custom of poetry contests was revitalised in substantial parts of the island in the 1980s. In some countries, there are even swearing contests, and insult battles, which make the same point. In particular, prioritarianism says that the distribution of chances in symmetrical contests matters. As suggested above, which of these two options is preferred in the end will depend on contesting notions of holding people responsible. The children's understanding of group improvisation was jointly negotiated and constructed as provisional, and frequently contested. The notion of globalisation is enormously complex and highly contested. The miners were prepared to resort, if not to violence, then to acts of civil disobedience and incursions onto contested land. They have thoroughly discussed the controversial, politically and legally contested topics, but not professionalism. The diversity of goals proper to medicine, and their openness to interpretation, makes mapping the moral domain of medicine complex and contested. The image and discursive practices the authors analyse become meaningful only when they reveal contests over the nation-space. 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